When was the last time you were offered coffee while you waited to see your doctor? Well, that’s what happened to the seventeen people who gathered at the clinic around 8 P.M. last week. No one was flipping nervously through magazines or anxiously looking at their watches.
Five devotees of the Hari Krishna were there for their cholera shots before they went on pilgrimage to India. One of them said they came to the clinic because the shots here cost only $1.50, instead of $17 in most other places. He also felt it was much more of a spiritual atmosphere.
Judy Wood came all the way from St. Ann to bring in her niece for the flu or possible kidney problems. Her family owes $300 for medical care to the county.
Liz Morrow and Michelle Bas came to see the GYN. Michelle had been in many times before. The people at the clinic, she said, are “really good people–to go out of their way for you.”
Originally published in The Paper, April 1974.
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